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Evviva’s a brand agency. We combine the power of
insight and the art of identity to make people act.
We’re headquartered in San Francisco and Edinburgh.
We work around the clock as one office, combining
Silicon Valley speed and thinking with Scottish
humor, creativity and thrift.
We specialize in technology, energy and financial
services. We support some of the world’s best known
and most admired B2C brands and some of the world’s
most complex B2B brands.
About
4. We have conducted market
researchin more thanthirty
countries including all the
world’s top tech markets for
many of the world’s leading
technology brands.
Our experience provides
unique perspective on the
mindset of the makers and
the marketplace.
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Experience
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Evviva’s global structure, agile process, expert
team and relentless drive let us deliver better
work faster.
Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
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Expression
Research. We run at questions others run from.
Strategy. Big ideas hide in plain sight. We catch
them and make them work.
Positioning. We cut clutter to find what matters.
Concepts. Creative has a job. We get it done.
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Impression
Digital. Everything’s digital. Including us.
Social. Brands exist in dialogue. We make
collateral and content to support dialogue.
Experiential. Great brands offer great experiences.
We audit and improve them.
Games. We use gamification to create branded
experiences.
Media. We plan, buy, report, analyze and optimize.
11. With a background spanning advertising and communications and a client
base including top brands inevery sector, Dr. David Kippenis a world-renowned
leader in brand strategy. Evviva Brands' founder and Chief Strategist, he actively
participates inall engagements.
David has worked with category leading brands such as Amazon, Ameriprise Financial, Bain & Co.,
Burger King, Catholic Healthcare West, Chevron, Coca-Cola, Dell, Disney, EnergyRecovery,
E.ON HP, HSBC, General Mills, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Kentz, KLA-Tencor, Lam Research,
Marriott, Microsoft, Moss-Adams, Nokia, Premera Blue Cross, Teva, T-Mobile and Xilinx.
He has extensive international research and consulting experience and has held leadership roles
in a number of top associations supporting the
marketing and communications professions.
David holds a bachelor ofarts in English from San
Francisco State University and PhD in English (Rhetoric)
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He completed his
doctoral work as a Visiting Scholar atthe Stanford-UC Berkeley Joint Center
for African Studies.
David
12. Cate
Cate Newsom serves as Evviva Brands' Head of Insight. With
a background ranging from documentary film to anthro-
pology, extensive field researchexperience, a working
knowledge of six languages and cross-cultural experience
drawnfrom living and working in six countries, Cate brings
An impressive, robust arrayof skills to every engagement.
Cate and her team deliver the primaryinsights upon
which Evviva Brands’ brand strategies are built.
Cate has worked with leading multinational corporations in
energy, financial services, consumer packaged goods,
management consulting, and technology.
She has master’s degrees in
social anthropology and cinemastudies
from UvA and NYU,
respectively, and a BA
from Yale University.
13. Amo
Amo believes that conceptual design can work for
everyone but should be backed up by strong
insight.
Amo graduated from the London
College of Printing in 1996 with a
B.A. Hons in Graphicand Media
Design and started his career at
Conde Nast Publications
designing for Vogue, GQ
and World of Interiors.
The internet caught his atten
-tion soon after and since
then he has applied a love
of typographyand print
aestheticto projects for
Depeche Mode, Apple, Casio
and o2 to name a few.
In his spare time Amo buys a lot
of records, cycles on tarmacand
mud and designs typefaces.
His designs have been used by
Casio and the BBC.
He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.
14. Stephen
With a background that includes public
relations, marketing consulting and more
than a decade as the National Creative
Director at global agency TMP Worldwide,
Stephen Stewart brings an unrivalled
combination of game development and
advertising marketing experience tohis role.
A graduate of Yale University with a degree
in Englishliterature, Stephencurrently lives
in Berkeley, California, with his wife Marin,
children Miranda and Arden, and lovable
mutt Carmen.
